Just prior to the self-immolation (whilst the ‘hero’ is still conscious and pain-free) they are to shout ‘Free Tibet’, ‘Dalai Lama Return to Tibet’, ‘Free Political Prisoners’, and so on.
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Just prior to the self-immolation (whilst the ‘hero’ is still conscious and pain-free) they are to shout ‘Free Tibet’, ‘Dalai Lama Return to Tibet’, ‘Free Political Prisoners’, and so on.
Author’s Note: Whereas the 14th Dalai Lama once pontificated that Communist China would collapse due to what he mistakenly considered to be its ‘internal contradictions’,
This essentially ‘Cold War’ rhetoric presents the Tibetan people through a highly racialised filter, very much in the mould of WWII era Japanese militarism and fascism (which depicted the Japanese people as being both physically and spiritually superior to all other ethnic groups). It is also something akin to Hitlerism, and the notion of a ‘pure race’ and of a race of ‘supermen’.